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    [Info]

    Artist       : Iva Bittovß
    Album        : Iva Bittovß
    Label        : ECM Records
    Genre        : Avantgarde
    Street Date  : 2013-03-26
    Quality      : 227 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
    Encoder      : Lame 3.98.4 -V0
    Size         : 71.55 MB
    Time         : 41:43 min
    Url          : http://www.amazon.com/Iva-Bittova/dp/B00AE10AWI/

    [Tracks]

    1.  Fragments I                                                        2:58
    2.  Fragments II                                                       2:10
    3.  Fragments III                                                      3:35
    4.  Fragments IV                                                       2:10
    5.  Fragments V                                                        2:59
    6.  Fragments VI                                                       3:46
    7.  Fragments VII                                                      7:19
    8.  Fragments VIII                                                     1:53
    9.  Fragments IX                                                       3:06
    10. Fragments X                                                        4:55
    11. Fragments XI                                                       3:48
    12. Fragments XII                                                      3:04


    [Notes]

    Iva Bittovß's self-titled album for ECM is almost literally impossible to
    describe, let alone categorize. For listeners, this is a dream come true in
    an age when music is chopped and parsed into blurry genres and micro genres
    -- and to be fully accountable in our descriptor tags accompanying the
    review, we are equally guilty -- they cannot contain her music. She plays
    violin (bows, strums, plucks, and gently hammers its strings), kalimba, and
    sings. The music consists of 12 "fragments," all but one composed by
    Bittovß. While she has always used the folk music of her Moravian culture
    (stringed instruments) rather than that of Czech culture (brass and
    percussion), she uses it as a single referential element in an expansive
    musical world view that includes classical music, avant-garde, and
    improvisational elements. But she proves too mercurial to be boxed in by any
    of them. "Fragment I" commences with a kalimba and her voice in something
    approaching a lullaby, though it contains drama and desire. On "Fragments
    VII," her vocal reaches, glides, and nearly soars in a haunting, nearly
    whimsical incantation, but her violin, with its roundness and warmth, gently
    binds it to the earth. In "Fragments VI," she adapts a melody by composer
    Joaquin Rodrigo, and combines it with lyrics by Gertrude Stein and Chris
    Cutler. The piece is performed a cappella; the hint of reverb on her vocal
    and her intentional rounding of syllables make those lyrics nearly
    indecipherable. What remains is the simple beauty of pure sound that
    inhabits the ground between ancient folk music, Byzantine chant, and the
    open-voiced articulation of the language of the human heart. "Fragments
    VIII" is driven by her violin, which uses classical, Moravian, and Romany
    folk traditions. The instrument's vibrations, via her bowed and hammered
    trills (the latter akin to those of a muted cimbalom) and drones, offer a
    dirge so mesmerizing and spacious that when her voice enters, haltingly at
    first, creating a more modern song form, it is almost, but not quite,
    jarring for a moment before it, too, becomes part of that dreamy equation.
    The kalimba returns on "Fragments XII." The lullaby theme is again
    articulated, but syncopated, stretched, and intoned more deeply, sans drama,
    with only a sense of implied resolution sending the recording off into the
    silence gently, yet not passively. While there is no doubting the
    sophisticated musicality in the wonderfully strange and accessibly charming
    sparseness of this album, ultimately, her "Fragments I-XII" are just as
    close to the mercurial root of unbridled poetry itself. As such, Iva Bittovß
    is the stuff of enigma.

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